Anyway, about the Rave. I was present for their all-college convocation when they announced the results of this innovative strategy. They held an all-night Rave Registration, allowing students to do everything from admissions to paying for classes—at 3:00 am if they wanted to—with food, fun, music, and lots of college support.

Some folks thought that the student services folks where out of their minds for proposing this, that only a handful of students would even be interested. They ended up with close to 500!!

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Mark: Pretty cool stuff happening in Texas! I'm guessing a lot of coffee was consumed. We're starting a Mark Milliron-ic book club here at USI (remember the haufbrau)...using the books from "The Learning Dialogues". So far we have around 60 folks interested...and I'm thinking....we're off to a good start. Take Care - Kevin V

CAC conducted a similar initative named "Midnight Madness". The Student Services department is open until Midnight the last Friday before classes begin. We find that many students work late or graveyard shifts and can't register during the traditional business hours. It was interesting to find student completing their college placement test at 9 p.m. I wonder what our traditional class schedule does (or doesn't) do for those students. Their peak times are the middle of the night . . . perhaps online courses or evening courses work best for those students with an alternate schedule yet we tend to schedule the bulk of classes mid-day and virtually nothing on the weekends.Rosemary

There's some interesting research to suggest that most high-school student body clocks aren't even close-to-ready to turn on and fully engage until the afternoon. Yet, most of their learning experiences are scheduled in the am.

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